I respect only those who resist me, but cannot tolerate them.
- Charles de Gaulle

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with 10,000 people. The hardest is
with one.
- Joan Baez

When the man is at home, his standing in society is well known and quietly taken;
but when he is abroad, it is problematical, and is dependent on the success of
his manners.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.
- Albert Camus

With three or more people there is something bold in the air: direct things get
said which would frighten two people alone and conscious of each inch of their
nearness to one another. To be three is to be in public - you feel safe.
- Elizabeth Bowen

It is always safe to assume that people are more subtle and less sensitive than
they seem.
- Eric Hoffer

At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with
someone, to let someone know that we know he's there with his questions; to
disarm him by seeming to have heard and done justice to his side of the standing
argument.
- Robert Frost